16/05/14 - 18/05/14 Friday Mike P and Ed Samp arrived at Clapham hut around 13:00 to unload supplies and sundries, to be joined by the Wolf 15mins later. There had been rumours of Rod, having left the hut just that morning, suggesting the inadequacies of cookware and the need for better pans for frying. One …
A Dream of White Horses, Gogarth
22/11/13 Four brave climbers left Derbyshire early Friday morning, piled into Rob’s home brand-Audi and headed off to Anglesey with the intention of doing A Dream of White Horses on Gogarth en route to the meet. Each member of the team had been carefully chosen, specifically selected for their own experience and unique skill set. …
Braemar Weekend, Scotland
27/06/13 - 30/06/13 Mike, Rob, Geoff, Ed, Syd and Rod braved ticks and midges on Thursday for a quick climb near Dunkeld just off the A9. Craig-Y-Barnes seems to have become an obligatory stop on the journey up to Scotland, with ‘The Groove’ being the usual route to yield to our topflight rock climbing skills. …
Joint Meet with the NPC at Cratcliffe – By J. D. Grayson.
2nd September 1956 The weather might well have washed the memory of this meet right out of members’ minds, but our visitors, The Northern Pennine Club, were instrumental in making the meet have the opposite effect. They arrived on the Saturday night and were entertained at the Club Hut. One of the party, albeit abetted …
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Climbing on Wharncliffe
12th October 1907 Wharncliffe Crags furnished, as usual, ample food for thought when the Club paid them a visit on October 12th. There are six or seven places within reasonable distance of Sheffield, where the scrambler, be he novice or expert, can find sport; but Wharncliffe has still, perhaps, the pick of the climbs. It …
A Rock Climb on Snowden – By J. W. Puttrell
July 1907 Messrs Bishop, Freeman, Pearson and Puttrell, with Mr J.L.Hambly (Southport), non-member, spent several days in July at Gorphwysfa. Climbs were done on Dinas Mot, Cyrn Las and Lliwedd The Slanting Gully Buttress, Lliwedd The precipitous crags of Lliwedd, on Snowdon, probably the highest and grandest in Britain, form the eastern spur of the …
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